SOURCE: "Reading for Profit and Pleasure: Little Women and The Story of a Bad Boy, "The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1994, pp. 143-53.
In the following excerpt, Donovan places Little Women in the context of the development of children's literature. Though Alcott incorporated lessons for self-improvement in her work, she opposed didacticism.
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